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Welcome to Dark Endeavors, home of The Boulder Lout and library of Dark Cloud's essays and radio commentaries over the past several geologic ages. Dark Endeavors is (generally) a one man consultancy, most often - not always - for issues and/or representation involving the interests expressed on this site. For more information, email me at: darkcloud@darkendeavors.com. For anything referencing the Lout, e-me at darkcloud@boulderlout.com. Or, try: Phone and Fax: 303.927.6861 Mail: POB 623, Boulder, Colorado 80306-0623 The reason all this is here is that I needed to find out what I had written through the years to index and reference it for my own interest and benefit. Making it available to the public (again) was merely a slight additional annoyance based upon the supposition that a quarter century of anyone's written work of this sort might be of interest IF it isn't edited to appeal to current standards. The temptation is strong, and I can only say I hope I was drunk when I wrote some of this, and I expect compensatory kudos (hah!) for putting up stuff so clearly wrong. On the other hand, a lot of it stands up by my coldly objective standards. Viewing the Site This site is best viewed in highest resolution, and Firefox and MSIE both should handle it fine from medium on up. Let me know if you have issues. On your left are buttons to a selection of continually updated past columns, my links page (DCPA), Hyde Park Forums, the Boulder Lout, and nearly a quarter century of KGNU radio rants that fills out as spirit moves. It's beginning to move me again, so things are getting done. Searching the Site The BlogaBoulder has its own search engine on each page, and sorts the entries. To search the entire site, go to Google. In the field type the topic you want like so: "Topic or word" site:www.darkendeavors.com. If you wanted to see how often I'd used the word war, you'd type in this, exactly - war site:www.darkendeavors.com There are glitches as yet unexplainable, but it gets 99% of everything. ANNOUNCEMENTS: In Dark Cloud's Hyde Park Forums Anyone can put up photos in the albums section; absent abuse, that'll continue. Once on the board, you can hyperlink to them in postings. EVERYONE has to register to post in the forums, now, because I get uneasy with all the spam from the People's Republic of China and the unnerving number of IP's from that nation that simply sit on my site for whatever reason. I've had to take off lots of their spam, and it's annoying. So no more. Sorry. Trying to get people to change their habits of communication is like trying to get them to change religion, only less enjoyable and more dangerous. The Hyde Park Forums were getting to be an unused pain, the emails and mail and phone calls still occur, and people weren't using the forums as I hoped they would be. So I've reduced them in size and just have a general category and one for the Barking Dog related issues. And a tech answer section, if there is a problem. All posts are still up, so far as I know. So just start a thread in the Speaker's Corner and see what happens. Although you DO need to register now, you can just make up a name. That's fine, I just want the IP's. In The Boulder Lout The drawings for The Lout are not mine, and I cannot recall if I was given them or they were found or what. If anyone knows their parentage, please let me know. In fact, ALL the news photos are from AP via EXCITE's home page, for the most part. The automated GIFs are from the Animation Factory website's free page. Much of the news summation is from Slate's Today's papers, but not all, and it's generally rewritten to one extent or another. But no, I do not read all the papers before posting, and some of the writing is not mine in the BlogaBoulder. Broadcast and Webcast and Podcast Dark Cloud's Commentary is webcast at 1430 hours Mountain Time every Wednesday at www.KGNU.org and broadcast at 88.5 fm in Boulder or 1390 AM out of Denver. It is also carried by various other stations around the country, but since it's free I have no clue most of the time which they are and when they air it. You'll have to inquire of your local public radio station. Be snooty and demanding if they don't carry it; they'll love that. If - ahem -you are that local public radio station, disregard that last sentence (it was for the hoi poloi, not people like US, don't you know), eme and I'll give you the decoder ring and map to allow you to download the broadcast version. This would also allow you to download HotShots, the short movie reviews by Dan Culberson. For Podcast, go to Commentary and download by rightclicking the MP3 icon next to the title you want. It's been elevated in quality to 40kbps at 24k hz version but it still is not broadcast quality. That's for those who know where the Broadcast Download Page is. They have a special code, a decoder ring, Dark Cloud coffee mugs, and my thanks. |
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